First Friday High Five: “Where’s Heather?” Edition
No, seriously, where’s Honeypenny? Damn. After the jump, we tell you the art shows that we’re going to.
Ed Eckstein’s Coming Of Rage At 222 Gallery
We don’t write about 222 Gallery nearly enough in these here webpages: It’s one of the most consistently thought-provoking and effortlessly cool galleries in town, and has been for years. Case in point: This show of Ed Eckstein’s photographs from the 60s and 70s that capture a world torn apart by war, racism and other played-out bullshit. Says Ed: “Not unlike the firehouse dog that jumps on the truck when the alarm sounds, I was drawn to document an era of discontent and divisiveness. Many of the pictures were done as self-assignments; some were commissions from a non-denominational magazine based in Philadelphia called Youth. Most of the time my only credentials were a Leica and a few rolls of Tri-X film.” Brother, these seem to be the only ones you need.
One Wall At Copy Gallery
Now, this is the way to do a group show: None of this one-piece-each-by-all-your-friends-so-nobody-gets- dickhurt nonsense. Instead, the folks at Copy Gallery have taken four walls and given one a piece to a Philly artist. Among them: Kevin Mercer, whose cursive-abstract vibe does it right for us. Also on the bill: Nick Lenker, Anastacia Kapp and Colt Hausman.
This Is Not The Future At Vox Populi
I got a Philly art world joke for ya, you ready? OK, let me try not to mess it up. It goes like this: How many Vox Populi artists does it to screw in a dystopian, futuristic light bulb? 27! GET IT? Uh, I’m sorry. We don’t know where Heather is this week. We just trust Vox. And sometimes, babypie, trust is enough.
Hector Hernandez & Outlaw Print Co. At Bambi
Full disclosure: We really keep meaning to STOP putting Bambi Gallery in these First Friday roundups because we like it’s gratuitous. We’re pals with the Bambi’s, and it just feels weird writing about them all the time. This is also known as The A-Sides/Espers Effect, where you secretly wish the people close to you would stop producing awesome things so you can avoid the obvious conflicts of interest that arise by knowing and loving said people. It’s a serious pain in the ass. Not helped any when Bambi again goes for the three-point swisher and puts on an Outlaw Print Co. show. Outlaw’s a print shop up in Port Richmond that makes amazing screen prints and t-shirts that sell in Shibuya-Kei for many, many yens, because Japanese teenagers know what Philebrity knows: It’s worth going broke to have the hottest t-shirt in the room. Sorry, we don’t make the rules. See you at Bambi!
Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas At Locks Gallery
And lastly in this kookiest-ever edition of Not Ms. Honeypenny’s First Friday High Five, we got some good ol’ painterly paintings. Because we keep it real like that. You may recognize the name Clare Rojas from Space 1026 of yore, when she and Andrew Jeffrey Wright did a series of adfucking works called “The Manipulators.” But this show of more “proper” paintings at Locks Gallery should show you that she didn’t go to art school just so she could learn to dress like Dale from Need New Body. Joy Feasley rounds it out, too, and if Locks Gallery could manage to, you know, put art on its website, we could tell you more. But what we can say is that Joy’s thumbnail (pictured) is divine.
